A Mobile Based Smart Attendance System Framework For Tracking Field Personals Using A Novel QR Code Based Technique

Tracking of a person for official purpose is a fiddly task. Quite a few scenarios that demands such requirements are tracking of attendance on a service person meeting a customer, sales person meeting a client or a health worker attending an outside patient to monitor adherence of treatment if they are frequently on field. It would require to monitor time of visit, the frequency and duration of contacts made by them, location of interaction are needed to be recorded and intimated to the concerned.To ensure better productivity and effectiveness in service in field tracking official work of field personals is a justifiable act. Constraint lies in implementing a automated attendance registering system which needs to be fool proof, cost effective, privacy protected and abiding ethical values. Many companies have made smart phones to be de facto requirement to be carried with them for employees like sales staff, service staff and health workers having field work. This paper proposes a smart phone based attendance framework which can overcome the above mentioned constraints. The proposed framework uses two different mobile applications used by field personals and recipient clients. The mobile apps requires simple internet connection and works on Quick Response(QR) code based technique as a mechanism for registering attendance remotely in to the web portal for field personals interacting respective recipient client. The high level implementation details of the proposed system is explained in this paper. It also discusses how the system verifies identity to eliminate false reporting.